State Bank of India (SBI) chairman Pratip Chaudhuri inaugurated a community service programme under the bank's Corporate Social Responsibility scheme on Monday. An ambulance was donated to Himalayan Institute Hospital Trust, Jolly Grant while ventilator and monitors were donated to Sri Guru Ram Rai Institute of Medical and Health Sciences.
In his address, Chaudhuri said that apart from banking SBI is also committed to social responsibilities and has been helping people, earmarking one percent of its profits for community service activities.
He emphasised the need to take up social welfare activities along with banking in the mountainous regions of Uttarakhand. "Around 1000 youth of Uttarakhand were employed in SBI in the last few years. We have planned to open more branches and ATMs in the State, he added. Chaudhuri further said that recently bank has installed facility of talking ATMs for visually handicapped customers equipped with voice devices at eight locations in Dehradun. All the branch managers have been directed to donate fans and water purifiers to local schools, he added.
HIHT Deemed University Vice Chancellor Dr Vijendra Chauhan, SGRR Education Mission vice chairman Prof SP Thapliyal, Chief General Manager Kajal Ghose, General Manager (NW-II) Manju Agarwal, DGM Diwakar Bhattt, AGM Sanjay Kumar, AGM (PR and CSB) KK Sharma, bank staff and customers were also present.